Happy city : transforming our lives through urban design / Charles Montgomery.
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TextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: First editionDescription: 358 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0374168237
- 9780374168230
- 0385669127
- 9780385669122
- 1846143209
- 9781846143205
- 0374534888
- 9780374534882
- Transforming our lives through urban design
- 307.1216 23
- HT166 .M5865 2013
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 307.1216 MON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | A537223B |
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| 307.1216 MAD How to turn a place around : a placemaking handbook / | 307.1216 MAK Making space : property development and urban planning / | 307.1216 MET Metacity datatown. | 307.1216 MON Happy city : transforming our lives through urban design / | 307.1216 PUB Public space / | 307.1216 SPA Spatial planning, urban form, and sustainable transport / | 307.1216 SUS Sustainable Urban Development / |
Includes bibliographical references.
The mayor of Happy -- The city has always been a happiness project -- The (broken) social scene -- How we got here -- Getting it wrong -- How to be closer -- Convivialities -- Mobilicities I: how moving feels, and why it does not feel better -- Mobilicities II: freedom -- Who is the city for? -- Everything is connected to everything else -- Retrofitting sprawl -- Save your city, save yourself -- Epilogue: the beginning.
"A journalist travels the world and investigates current socioeconomic theories of happiness to discover why most modern cities are designed to make us miserable, what we can do to change this, and why we have more to learn from poor cities than from prosperous ones"-- Provided by publisher.
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